Sunday, November 25, 2012

Kaptai lake is a man made lake in south-eastern Bangladesh. It is
placed in the Kaptai Upazila under Rangamati District of Chittagong Division.
The lake was twisted as a result of building the Kaptai Dam on the Karnaphuli
River, as part of the Karnaphuli Hydro-electric project.

Creation of the tank for the hydro-electric plant begin in 1956 by the
administration of East Pakistan.

As a result, 54,000 acres (220 km2)
of farmland in the Rangamati District went under water and twisted the lake.
The hydro-electric project was funded by the United States. The project was
finished in 1962. International engineering friendship and Utah International
Inc. conventional the agreement for construction of the dam. The dam is 670.8
meters long, and 54.7 meters high.

The block has a 745 feet (227 m) long
spillway containing 16 gates. Through the spillway 5,250,000 cu ft/s (149,000 m3/s)
of water can pass. The land that went under water as a result of the dam
production was 40% of the total arable land in the area.

Along with that, 29
square miles (75 km2) of the Government-owned forest, and 234
square miles (610 km2) of other woods land went under water.
About 18,000 families with a total of almost 100 thousand people were also
displaced. The palace of the king of the Chakmas was also flooded and is now
below water

In mughal period, there was a garden house of Sheikh Enayet Ullah, the
landowner of Jamalpur porgona (district), in this place. Sheikh Enayet Ullah
was a very pleasant person. He acquires a very big area in Kumartuli and
integrated in his garden house. Here he built a beautiful palace and named it
“Rangmahal”. He used to enjoy here keeping beautiful girls collecting from the
country and abroad.

covering them with good-looking dresses and expensive
ornaments. There is a saying that, the foujdar of Dhaka (representative of
mughal emperor) in that time was attracted to one of the striking girls among
them. He invited Sheikh Enayet Ullah in a party one night and killed him in a
conspiracy when he was returning home. That girl also committed suicide in
anger and sorrow. There was a one doomed cemetery of Sheikh Enayet Ullah in the
north-east corner of the palace yard, which was ruined in the beginning of 20th
century.

Most likely in the period of Nawab Alibardi Khan around 1740 century, Sheikh
Moti Ullah, the son of Sheikh Enayet Ullah, sold the property to the French
traders. There was a French trading house beside this property. The trading
house became more affluent after purchasing this property. In that time, French
traders could do business here without paying any taxes by a decree from the
emperor Awrangajeb.

Within 1785, the French transferred the property to a French tradesman named
Mr. Champigni, and retaken it at 1801. According to Paris conformity of 1814,
the French claimed all their left properties at Dhaka, and in 1827 the property
was again returned to the French. For the increasing power of the English, the
French was forced to left subcontinent. They decided to sell all their
properties in Dhaka. So in 1830, the trading house of Kumartuli was purchased
by the established landlord of Dhaka Khwaja Alimullah.

In the sunset of 7 April 1888, a great tornado hit Dhaka city because great
break. Ahsan Manjil was greatly dented and abandoned. An English engineer from
Kolkata arrived here to study the palace. He gave opinion that except the
“Rangmahal”, all other parts of the palace have to reconstruct. So Khwaja Abdul
Gani and his son Ahsanullah turned their full attention to reconstruct the
palace. Both of the building was reconstructed during that time with a new
design made and supervised by the local engineer Gobinda Chandra Roy.

After the loss of Khwaja Ahsanullah in 1901, the glory of Ahsan Manjil was
ended. His successor couldn’t carry on the glory for the internal family
quarrel. They rented different parts of the palace to tenants, who actually
made it a slum. In 1952 govt. acquired the property and left in supervision of
the Dhaka Nawab court. In 1985 Dhaka National Museum acquires the possessions
and made it a museum.

Foy’s Lake is enjoyment
World is a theme park situated in the heart of Chittagong, in Foy’s Lake. Enjoyment
World is located in the same complex as Sea World and Foy’s Lake Resorts.

The
Foy’s Lake theme parks are situated in a charming setting delimited by hills, a
lake and green forests located in Pahartoli, Chittagong on approximately 320
Acres of land. Chittagong is a major port city of Bangladesh located south of
Dhaka with good move links from the capital.

Chittagong is careful by many as
the most beautiful district of the country due to its natural beauty comprising
of the seaside, hills, rivers, forests and valley. Pleasure World is a dry park
with the usual theme park rides and attractions as well as boat rides on the
lake, landscaping, restaurants, concert with balanced stages, scenic walking
trails and many other fun actions. It even boasts a resort hotel.

We have
something for every age and taste. The biggest attraction is the beauty of the
lake and its surrounding hills. Our park is right in the middle of it so you
can have the enjoyable and thrills as well as the tranquility and nonviolence
of Foy’s Lake. It also hosts many corporate picnics and other events.

The brand new Foy’s Lake Resort is a unique getaway in Chittagong where you can
continue in comfortable place while enjoying the natural beauty of Foy’s Lake
and the amusement of its two theme parks.

Mahasthanghor is one of the most basic urban archaeological site so
far exposed in Bangladesh. The village Mahasthan in Shibganj Thana of Bogra
ward contains the remains of an ancient city which was called Pundranagara .

Paundravardhanapura in the territory of Chandragupta A sandstone slab bearing
six lines in Prakrit in Brahmi script, discovered in 1931, dates Maharashtra
to at least the 3rd century BC. The fortified area was in use till the 18th
century Ado ether with the ancient

and mediaeval ruins, the mazhar (holy tomb)
of Shah Sultan Balkhi Mahisawar built at site of a Hindu temple is located at
Mahasthangarh. He was a dervish (holy person devoted to Islam) of magnificent
lineage who came to the Mahasthangarh area, with the goal of spreading Islam
among non-Muslims. He converted the people of the area to Islam and complete
There.

Staying on the main road
from Dhaka to Rajshahi, Puthia stands regarding 40 km short of the last
Divisional centre.

Access by a side road off
the major street lies the Puthia ‘Complex’, with its splendid late 19th
Century Palace, and some of the finest Hindu temples within the country.

The first structure to
catch the eye as you draw near is the white plastered Shiva Temple, which, with
a small pavilion beside it stand reflected in a lake. Somewhat defaced, it is
said, by marauding Pakistani troops during the Liberation War of 1971, the
essentials, nevertheless remain intact.

Moving on, across yet
another pond, surrounded by a greensward, when not occupied by fairs or
exhibitions, stands the magnificent 13 pillar facade of the palace.

Built in 1895, two years
before in Great India trembling that shattered so many earlier buildings in
Bangladesh, and led to a positive passion of building for stand-in, it has
survived to crumble gradually, occupied, now, as a teacher training college. A
little over 100 years, and it certainly won’t last another century. Hemanta
Kumari Devi, who ordered its construction would probably be glad of its present
use, but saddened by its state.

To one side, and a little behind,
stands the nearly two hundred year old Govinda Temple. In manifestation and
structure, not unlike the more famous Kanthiji Temple near Dinajpur. But whilst
Kanthiji, perhaps, may boast even finer earth friezes, Govinda Temple has
reserved the spires that the trembling brought down at Kanthiji.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the biggest
forest in the world (140,000 ha), the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and
Meghna rivers of the Bay of Bengal. It has been World birthright site
since 1987.

The complete site is crossed by a complex network of channel under
the control of tidal marsh and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests,
provided that an outstanding example of constant geological process.

The area
is known for its rich wildlife including 260 bird kinds, the Bengal tiger and other
rare genus such as the estuarine crocodile and the python.

The secure haven is intersecting by a composite network of tidal waterway, mud
flats and small islands of salt tolerant mangrove forests. The area is flooded
with blackish water for the duration of high tides which mixes with fresh water
from inland rivers.

The weather is tropical and humid. Annual rainfall are around 2790 mm, mainly concerted
in the monsoon from June to October. Full cloudburst is from June to September.

The Sundarbans is a plentiful natural reserve for a number of leisure, travel
and study activities. These take account of wild life film making including
photography of the famous Royal Bengal Tiger, wild life viewing.

boating inside
the forest, wild call recordings, nature study, meeting fishermen, wood- shears
and honey-collectors. Peace and tranquillity in the wilderness, seeing the
world's largest mangrove forest and the riverine beauty are a few of the
treasures that greet the visitors.

Jaflong is one of the
most gorgeous traveler spot in Sylhet division. It's about 60 km far from
Sylhet town and takes two hours drive to arrive at there. Jaflong is also a beautiful
spot close by amidst tea gardens and velocity beauty of rolling stones from
hills. It is positioned in addition the river Mari in the lap of Hill Khashia.

The Mari
river is coming from the great Himalayas of India, which bring million tons of
stone boulder with its tide. You can observe the stone compilation from the
river in Jaflong as well as you can get pleasure from the boating in the river
Mari. Jaflong is fully a hilly area of real naLots of wild creature lives in
this forest, so you need to be cautious to enter in the forest alone.

You can observe the way of life of Tribe
Khashia in Jaflong. If you propose to visit Jaflong it is suitable to start
from Sylhet in the early morning so that you can return by evening covering the
other tourists spots of nearby areas of Jaflong.

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other traveler areas nearby Jaflong are Tamabil, Sripur and Jaintapurtural.0 good
looks where hills are greenish by the forest.

St. Martin's Island is a little island in the northeast division
of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the angle of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf
peninsula, and form the southernmost part of Bangladesh. It is the only coral
island in Bangladesh. It is about 8 km west of the northwest coast of Myanmar
at the mouth of the Naf River. The neighboring name of the island is
"Narical Gingira", also spelled "Narikel Janjina/Jinjera",
translated from Bangla, meaning 'Coconut Island'.

St. Martin's Island has become a fashionable traveler stain. at present, three transport
liners run daily trip to the island, counting Sea-Truck and Keary-Sindbad. tourist
can book their journey either from Chittagong or from Cox's Bazar. The close
coral reef of the island has an addition named 'Chera Dwip'.

In the history 5 years St. Martin's tourist inhabitants has greater than before
severely. whereas this position has proven to be lucrative for the islanders,
it is causing the ordinary loveliness of the isle to deteriorate. currently
there are many labors being put forth to preserve the several rare species of
turtles that case on the atoll, as well as the corals, a numeral of of which
are found only on Narikel Jinjera. piece of the coral reef are being removed in
order to be sold to tourists. Nesting turtles are sometimes taken for food, and
their hatchlings are often distracted by the moment lights along the seaside. type
of fish, a few just recently discovered, are being over-fished. Every year the
fishermen must project further out to ocean to get their catch. Most of them
use motorless boats.

At tall wave the desert island is about 3 miles just about, and tired in the core.
The island exist only since of its coral base, so subtraction of that coral
risks corrosion of the beaches. St. Martins has lost almost 25% of its coral
reef in the past 7 years.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Modern Cox's
Bazar derives its name from Captain Hiram Cox (died 1799), an officer serving
in British India. An officer of the British East India Company, Captain Cox was
appointed Superintendent of Palongkee outpost after Warren Hastings became Governor
of Bengal. Captain Cox was specially mobilised to deal with a century-long
conflict between Arakan refugees and local Rakhains. The Captain was a
compassionate soul and the plight of the people touched his heart. He embarked
upon the mammoth work of rehabilitating refugees in the area and made
significant progress. A premature death took Captain Cox in 1799 before he
could finish his work. But the work he had done earned him a place in the
hearts of the locals, and to commemorate his role in rehabilitation work a
market was established and named after him Cox's Bazar ("Cox's Market").

Today, Cox's
Bazar is one of the most-visited tourist destinations in Bangladesh, however it
has yet to become a major international tourist destination, with no
international hotel chains operating here, due to lack of publicity and
transportation.

Bangladesh
emerged as an autonomous and ruler country in 1971 next a nine month war of
liberation. It is one of the largest deltas of the world with a total area of
147,570 sq. km. With a unique communal harmony, Bangladesh has a population of
about 152.51 million, making it one of the densely populated countries of the
world. The popular (over 88%) of the people are Muslim. Over 98% of the people
speak in Bangla. English, however, is generally spoken. The country is covered
with a network of rivers and canals forming a maze of interconnecting channels.
Being an active partner, Bangladesh plays vital role in the international and
regional forum, particularly in the UN, Commonwealth and South Asian
Association of Regional support (SAARC).